Let’s Skip New Year’s Resolutions this Year and Do Something Better

I’m not doing any New Year’s Resolutions this year and I’m inviting you to join me.  New Year’s Resolutions are about becoming a better you.  Developing new habits.  Nurturing your strengths.  Becoming a faster, fitter, kinder, more efficient, more creative you.  A way to strive towards who you want to be in the new year … Read more

Setting Big Goals That You Can Achieve

Setting Goals – That’s easy, right?  Setting goals and achieving goals. It seems like it should be a straight line… Set a goal Take steps to achieve it Achieve the result  Repeat  Somehow it never seems that straightforward.   The first leap is setting goals in the first place. Let me share how avoiding goal setting … Read more

3 Takeaways and Insights from SEADOM 2018

Earlier this spring, I had the opportunity to attend the annual South East Asian Directors of Music (SEADOM 2018) congress. The conference location changes each year and this time, it was held at gorgeous Mahidol University in Salaya, Thailand, about an hour outside of Bangkok. The setting was glorious! Several buildings were interwoven alongside swamps, … Read more